One dead, over 200 homes burn in New South Wales bushfires

19 Oct ABC News

At least one person has been killed and as many as 200 homes have been destroyed by bushfires across the Australian state of New South Wales, officials said.Authorities said, a 63-year-old man collapsed and died while trying to protect his home at Lake Munmorah on the Central Coast.

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Maldives police stops presidential election

19 Oct BBC

Police in the Maldives are preventing a presidential election from going ahead, eyewitnesses in the capital Male say. The electoral commission had made a last-minute announcement that the vote would be held as planned on Saturday.

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Pakistan tells UN: Four-hundred civilians killed by drone strikes

19 Oct DW.de

Pakistan has confirmed that of some 2,200 people killed by drone strikes in the past decade, at least 400 were civilians and an additional 200 victims were deemed “probable non-combatants,” a UN human rights investigator said on Friday.

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